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There is something missing in this sentence. I think it is an auxiliary verb. I had grown a long fuzzy brown beard that was curled at the end. My suggestion to omit that is: omit "that was" in the sentence so yo have: I had grown a long fuzzy brown beard curled at the end.

When looking up tricky constructions or words, one can often go to the dictionary to view its proper usage. For example, www.dictionary.com shows this definition and usage note for nor:1. (used in negative phrases, esp. after neither, to introduce the second member in a series, or any subsequent...

Dear MMThank you for that, but still arousing my question.I have learnt like that " I am angry at him" so if I add auxiliary verb to emphasis, that will come "auxiliary verb + main verb".Am I wrong that I am angry.. and I might be angry.."?Thank you

The first sentence is correct. Would is a defective auxiliary which requires a plain infinitive to be used with it. Due is not a verb.CB

Hi again,'What does emotional thinking entail?'When you use the auxiliary verb 'do', you just use the base form of the main verb egMary: Tom, do you love me?Tom: Yes, Mary, I do love you, I do, I do!Later, Mary tells her mother 'Tom does not hate me. He told me that he does...

Well, if action is meant, the tense is shown in the passive auxiliary to be: His texts are edited every morning. (No doubt the texts get placed in a state as a result.)English is not the most exact of languages as far as the passive is concerned. Context is often very important for correct...

HiYour sentence is in the present perfect. "Have you ever had ...""the feeling" is a gerund, and acts as if it were a noun (it's the direct complement of "have had"). Try and replace it with "idea", "impression" etc (I'm not saying they...

Be careful, sometimes the verb "have" and the past participle (or "had" and the past participle, if we are talking about the past perfect) are not adjacent, so you cannot make your choices simply by simply looking at their proximity! All of the following sentences, for...

Is it a rule that the auxiliary, the past participle and the main verb are immediately after one another with no other words inbetween?For example: "Have you ever had the feeling that you're being followed?" This sentence has both "have" and "had" and two...

Hi,I'm currently studying up on tenses and I'm doing an exercise in my book whereby I need to state whether the sentence does or does not use the perfect tense. I'm a little stuck with the following sentence:"I have a dog called Frank"My understanding is that to identify the...